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cornish_crofter
Hi not been around as much as I would like to have been lately.
Anyway I'm about to tile a splashback for a vanity basin in a room. The customer has chosen a mosaic boarder, which is one sheet of mosaic she wants cutting up into strips of 3 tiles wide and inserting. This will give a mosaic boarder about 2 inches wide/deep.
The rest of the tiles are simply 4x4s I've got no issues with them on their own.
A few points
1) I was going to lay the tiles up to where the boarder is to be, then batten for the tiles above the boarder, leaving a consistent gap for the mosaics to be laid into later. This I feel would help me avoid having to set whole tiles on top of a mosaic boarder that could move around.
2) For such a small area of mosaics I wasn't going to go to the trouble of using Bal Mosaic or similar. I was just thinking of using a small mosaic trowel to get in there and apply the adhesive. A normal non rapid set would surely give me enough time to straighten out the mosaics as the tiles around them will be fully set by then.
3) This is the problem area. The mosaics are THICKER than the bleddy tiles! I have pointed this out to the customer (when I quoted for the job there was no boarder and certainly no mosaics). I have read up on using a liner to bring the tiles out thicker etc, or apply a thicker bed of adhesive over the area that is to be covered in the 4 x 4 tiles. I have gone to great lengths to make the wall level, and it is! I think there may be a 1mm variation over the whole area to be tiled. It's plasterboard on stud work. (this is only a splashback).
4) Also, this is going to be good fun. The mosaics on the sheet are different thicknesses to each other. To what depth do you set the grout? How do you grout this to make it look sensible? I'm thinking along the lines of a straight edge applied in the grout lines to grout to the thinnest tile. This would keep the grout the same depth but some of the mosaics would be protruding - What would look best?
I was shown the mosaics as I was just finishing up this evening. Up to that point I wasn't even aware they had a boarder to go up!
Anyway I'm about to tile a splashback for a vanity basin in a room. The customer has chosen a mosaic boarder, which is one sheet of mosaic she wants cutting up into strips of 3 tiles wide and inserting. This will give a mosaic boarder about 2 inches wide/deep.
The rest of the tiles are simply 4x4s I've got no issues with them on their own.
A few points
1) I was going to lay the tiles up to where the boarder is to be, then batten for the tiles above the boarder, leaving a consistent gap for the mosaics to be laid into later. This I feel would help me avoid having to set whole tiles on top of a mosaic boarder that could move around.
2) For such a small area of mosaics I wasn't going to go to the trouble of using Bal Mosaic or similar. I was just thinking of using a small mosaic trowel to get in there and apply the adhesive. A normal non rapid set would surely give me enough time to straighten out the mosaics as the tiles around them will be fully set by then.
3) This is the problem area. The mosaics are THICKER than the bleddy tiles! I have pointed this out to the customer (when I quoted for the job there was no boarder and certainly no mosaics). I have read up on using a liner to bring the tiles out thicker etc, or apply a thicker bed of adhesive over the area that is to be covered in the 4 x 4 tiles. I have gone to great lengths to make the wall level, and it is! I think there may be a 1mm variation over the whole area to be tiled. It's plasterboard on stud work. (this is only a splashback).
4) Also, this is going to be good fun. The mosaics on the sheet are different thicknesses to each other. To what depth do you set the grout? How do you grout this to make it look sensible? I'm thinking along the lines of a straight edge applied in the grout lines to grout to the thinnest tile. This would keep the grout the same depth but some of the mosaics would be protruding - What would look best?
I was shown the mosaics as I was just finishing up this evening. Up to that point I wasn't even aware they had a boarder to go up!
